Slow Motion Quotes

“But today, something begins to shift. I see that there might be some way I can take the raw material of my life and transform it into something that has order and structure. I can make sense of what, until now, has been senseless.”
― Dani Shapiro, Slow Motion: A True Story

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― Dani Shapiro, Slow Motion

“Though I don't know this today, I am making a choice. I am choosing not to choose. My mind has gone numb precisely so that I won't understand that somewhere buried deep in this mess there's a right and a wrong. Someone is the villain here. I just have no idea who it is, and I don't want to know - because knowing will mean I will have to choose my mother over my sister, or my sister over my mother. I've already lost so much I can't bring myself to lose any more. For the rest of my life, I will become stupid around this subject. I will shrug my shoulders when people ask me why my sister and mother don't speak. "My sister contested my father's will", I will say, as if this is the end of the story - or the beginning.”
― Dani Shapiro, Slow Motion: A True Story

“What she doesn't realize is that I have survived for her as well -- and only now am I beginning to survive for myself.”
― Dani Shapiro, Slow Motion: A True Story